Voice of the Whirlwind Quotes

“If you wish to find the unclouded truth, he told himself, do not concern yourself with right or wrong. Conflicts with right and wrong are a sickness of the mind. The”
― Walter Jon Williams, Voice of the Whirlwind (Author's Preferred Edition)

“I have no sword, Steward thought, and the thought was triumphant. From the state which is above and beyond, from thought I make my sword.”
― Walter Jon Williams, Voice of the Whirlwind (Author's Preferred Edition)

“Curzon stood up. He gestured with a fist. “I don’t want you to think about anything,” he said. “I want you to feel. Feel the rightness of this. The correctness of this vision. The necessity of it.” Steward could see patches of sweat under Curzon’s arms. “I want you to sense, Steward, that this is something worth having.”
― Walter Jon Williams, Voice of the Whirlwind (Author's Preferred Edition)

“Moving like a rat in its maze. Programmed. Performing a function that it was not capable of understanding, on behalf of people whose entire existence was outside its knowledge, detected only as feet occasionally planted in its way.”
― Walter Jon Williams, Voice of the Whirlwind (Author's Preferred Edition)

“Thin streams of blood ran in artistic patterns. “Pulling toenails serves the Destinarian philosophy?” he asked. Ardala shrugged. “Demonstrates the fragility of flesh as opposed to hardware. I’m going to take a bath.”
― Walter Jon Williams, Voice of the Whirlwind (Author's Preferred Edition)

“Steward felt closest to Reese. However cautious they were, however little they knew each other, there was a friendship there, a mutual respect. Steward was careful not to presume on it, to tread on Reese’s privacy. That, he concluded, was what friends did. *”
― Walter Jon Williams, Voice of the Whirlwind (Author's Preferred Edition)

“SuTopo was less a person than a presence, a calm source of authority, like a reigning monarch. Aside”
― Walter Jon Williams, Voice of the Whirlwind (Author's Preferred Edition)

“These were mixed with parts that, when assembled, transformed themselves into a custom-made long-barreled pistol, made entirely of an advanced plastic that would pass most detectors and which fired recoilless, near-silent cartridges with self-consuming casings, He’d brought the ammunition himself on the Earth shuttle.”
― Walter Jon Williams, Voice of the Whirlwind (Author's Preferred Edition)

“Two large, soft traveling bags weighed down his shoulders by their straps. Holo adverts blossomed into life around him. He walked lightly, scanning the people waiting for the shuttle. Food smells came out of the fast eateries across from the gate. The air hummed with the noise of business.”
― Walter Jon Williams, Voice of the Whirlwind (Author's Preferred Edition)